Moby Dick is on hold. I am currently reading Aasmund Olavsson Vinje's articles from Drammens Tidende from 1851. Norway fell under Danish rule for over 400 years, till we got our own constitution in 1814, just before we were forced into union with Sweden till 1905. Today, Vinje is famous in Norway for breaking with writing Norwegian in Danish, and rather write in a manner closer to the language of rural Norway - nynorsk or new Norwegian, like Ivar Aasen. However, in my local newspaper from 1851, this has not happened yet... He writes in Danish about the growth of the journals, journalism and its growing influence as a fourth power in Europe. Entertaining, biting and very interesting.

I finished Angel of the Revolution and am now listening to The Invasion of 1910 by William Le Queux. It was written several years prior to WW1 but is about a German invasion of England. It is not bad but a little on the technical side. The librivox reader speaks a little on the fast side but is ok.

But there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling one’s range and capacities expanding; the pleasure of entering into an unfamiliar world, and being led into empathy with a consciousness very different from one’s own; the pleasure of knowing what others have already thought it worth knowing, and entering a larger conversation.

It isn't mosquito season out here just yet, but I'm not looking forward to it. My blood type is "Yummy" as far as the skeeters are concerned. I can go out into a field with four other people and be the only one with bites. Six-legged assholes!

- any font size and font you need.- remembers where you stopped reading, it is on the right page.- you can have several open at the same time and switch back and forth.- bookmarks for your own specific favourite parts.- can read in sun-light and at night without flash-light.- searchable- text-to-speech for reading support. English, German, French and Spanish on my phone.- retrieve books from all over the world whereever you are.- comments and high-lights can be created - and shared, i.e. quotes.- none-text material like diagrams and 3D and multimedia can be integrated for a richer experience if appropriate. "Then the composer thought..." DA-DA-DA-DAAAA (hit play to listen).

We're now able to support multiple authentication systems including the standard login/password system ...and OpenID... plus Mozilla Persona. Maybe *your* customized login system will be next? The framework is flexible and ready for you to build on.

Friendica has an extensible login system - and actually so does Red. For Friendica, I built connectors for openid and ldap. Nobody ever used ldap and all people did was bitch and moan about openid - but never enough to show me logs or try to fix it.

So it sounds like a cool feature, but it's really kind of ho-hum.

But they need some kind of remote authentication to offer media privacy, so you can read between the lines here. openid means somebody can login to your MG via Facebook or Google. The only problem here is that it's all centralised. You can login to see Joe's photos. Then you'll have to login on Bob's site to see Bob's photos. This is where we were with Wordpress and Drupal in 2004-2005, except that now Facebook and Google can authenticate you to all these little isolated islands.

More to the point, I don't know how we might link to MG auth or vice versa from Red because accounts (which is your authentication) and channels (which is your identity) are completely different. It's an interesting little problem.

Seth is having the same troubles. Here's what I wrote on Friendica trying to assist him...

We're checking the time of the post ('now' converted to UTC), with 'now +10 minutes' converted to UTC. If the created time on the post is further in the future than that, we postpone publish until the created time is in the past.

That's pretty strange you're getting a future post because according to the logs the timestamp on the post matches the system time.

We're comparing them with a simple"if($d2 > $d1)", which the PHP manual says has been supported since 5.2.2. I intentionally did not use DateTime::diff because it's 5.3 specific (even though we now require 5.3).

If you're interested in helping track this down - I'm looking at include/items.php:1467

So does this mean my time travelling posts from the past are a bug then?

XKCD generates the post with one cronjob, and posts them 15 minutes later. It gets item_flags of 99, and the logs indicate delayed delivery. They do post immediately when they're sent, but still get the item flags of a time travel post.

I don't have logs anymore - cleared them out a few hours ago - but can keep them next time if that's something that needs looking at.

Oh, and time travel posts have nothing to do with item_flags, they set item_restrict (to 128 plus any other flags). Since most stream searches include "item_restrict = 0", they shouldn't show up until published. So what you're looking at is